Feeder or teat for feeding bottles



May 20,1930,

c. FERVERS 1,759,568

FEEDER OR TEAT FOR FEEDING BOTTLES Filed Nov. i0, 1928 Patented May 2 0, 1930 I l v I 1;;59558 ICE , UNITED STATES PATENT OFF CARL FERVERS, OF COLOGNE-ON-THE-RHINE, GER-MANY FEEDER R TEAT FOR FEEDING BOTTLES Application filed November 10, 1928, Serial No. 318,328, and in Germany August 14, 1926.

This invention concerns improvements in centrally projecting teat integral with-the feeders or teat-s for feeding bottles, the obbreast portion and substantially shorter than ject being to provide a teat which reproduces the radius of said breast portion, the diamfaithfully the conditions under which an ineter of the lower portion of the teat being 6 fant is nursed at its mothers breast. less than that of the outer portion thereof.

According to the invention the head of the In testimony whereof I have signed my teat protrudes from the surface of the halo name to this specification. which rises towards the centre and the halo DR. CARL F ERVERS. is made in one piece with said teat from. a p p 10 resilient material, the arrangement being such that the length of the teat is considerably less than the radius of the halo, being about a half thereof, and its thickness increases towards the free end containing the orifices;

15 thus not only the shape of the feeder but I also the mode of sucking correspond exactly to the natural conditions of nursing at the mothers breast. According to a further feature of this invention the smooth halo, similarly to a natural breast, is furnished with o 7 irregularities, such as grooves or the like so that the lips of the child when sucking form an air-tight seal on the halo and there is no possibility of unhealthy air drinking. Be-

25 yond this the teat only serves to rest quietly l V in the mouth of the child, without being touched by the lips. Due to its short'form the disadvantageous collapse of said teat is no longer possible and the milkflows quietly 30 and without interruption to the child from the bottle. At the free end of the teat there i is preferably a series of small. suction orifices such as are also to be found in the teat of the natural female breast. J

Oneform of feeder or teat 'acc'ording to g V A the invention is illustrated by way of example in the accompanying drawing.

This feeder has a halo a furnished with grooves or the like d from the centre of 1 0 which protrudes the teat b,- said teat is thinp ner at the end where it is attached and widens towards its free end. Fine orifices 0 are pro vided in the free end of the teat. 7

aving now particularly described and as- 45 certained the nature of my said invention and Y v in what manner the same is to be performed, I declare that what I claim is A feeder for nursing bottles, comprising a shallow conical breast portion having an- O nular corrugations in its outer. surface and a t 7 I I 

